- Years in practice
- 21
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Michelle
Michelle Curry is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. She approaches clients with compassion and respect, offering a steady, nonjudgmental presence. Michelle makes space for each person's story and helps them find practical tools to move forward.
Her background includes many years working in Illinois settings where she supported people facing trauma, grief, relationship strain, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy.
Background and approach
She has also helped clients navigate ADHD, bipolar concerns, eating-related difficulties, and career stress. Michelle listens first, then offers techniques that fit each person’s life. Sessions focus on clear goals and skills you can use between meetings.
Michelle emphasizes building understanding about how current patterns developed and what can change. She uses straightforward language and aims to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to day-to-day life. Parents often come for help with parenting stress, blended family issues, and communication problems.
Michelle supports caregivers who are burned out or juggling complex family roles, and she assists people dealing with adoption and foster care concerns or abandonment issues. Michelle offers emotional support for those facing major life changes, compassion fatigue, or the long work of healing after abuse.
Her work is person-centered and practical, focused on helping people gain insight and steady tools for coping. All sessions are provided in English and are offered through multiple online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
What Michelle works with
Everything Michelle lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Michelle helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Evidence-based approaches for online parenting and stress support
Michelle draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach emphasizes learning skills for managing anxiety and stress, using step-by-step strategies to reduce worry, improve sleep, and handle everyday triggers. This helps people regain calm and better cope with parenting demands and work pressure.Another approach centers on trauma-informed care, which helps people safely process painful memories and reduce their impact on current relationships and daily functioning. This method works slowly and at the person's pace, aiming to restore a sense of safety and control after abuse or overwhelming events.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle talks with each person about their goals, life situation, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for conversational work and teaching skills, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat allow shorter check-ins or support between appointments. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy parenting schedule or a tight workday.
Questions people ask about Michelle
What concerns does Michelle commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, grief, ADHD, bipolar, and related struggles.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Michelle listens first and uses a practical, person-centered approach. Sessions focus on empathy, understanding patterns, and learning concrete tools to manage problems.
How much experience does she bring?
She has approximately 21 years of experience providing social work and therapeutic support in Illinois settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
Michelle holds an LCSW credential and practices from Illinois.
Which languages and international arrangements are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Michelle?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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